marco@work - New prospects for the study of English dialect syntax: Impetus from syntactic theory and language typology

New prospects for the study of English dialect syntax: Impetus from syntactic theory and language typology door Bernd Kortmann maakt deel uit van de online publicatie Syntactic Microvariation.

From the abstract:

[...] the theory-internal developments will be sketched which are responsible for this relatively recent interest in dialect grammar within the generative framework, on the one hand, and the framework of language (more exactly: functional or Greenbergian) typology, on the other hand (Part 2.2). In a second step, the significance of various phenomena of English dialect syntax will be demonstrated when looked at from a generative and functional-typological perspective. [...]